Bob Inglis

Robert Durden "Bob" Inglis Sr. (11 October 1959-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-SC 4) from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 1999 (succeeding Liz Patterson and preceding Jim DeMint) and from 3 January 2005 to 3 January 2011 (succeeding DeMint and preceding Trey Gowdy).

Biography
Robert Durden Inglis Sr. was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1959, and he grew up in Bluffton, South Carolina. He worked as a lawyer before serving on the executive committee of the Greenville County Republican Party, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999 and from 2005 to 2011 as a Republican. In 1994 and 1996, he was elected without substantive opposition, but he lost his seat to his informal advisor Jim DeMint in 1998, only to regain his seat in 2004. He said that conservatives should accept that climate change is real, supported the recognition of same-sex marriage, and opposed offshore oil drilling and warrantless surveillance.